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You think Megan and I are going to spend our time coming to your studio? Who pays for the transportation? Give me a break. Who pays for our time there? No one works for free. The last thing I want to do is go to a studio and answer a bunch of shit questions from a bunch of over-educated, spoiled lazy elitists who’ve never done anything in their lives except bitch and moan. You’re goddamn right I want compensation for my time! Jeff Ragsdale

The NYTPicker's a bunch of low-life pieces of shit who all failed at journalism so now they attack people who made it. It's much harder to build something up. Do the world a favor, NYTIdiots, and get terminal cancer. –Jeff Ragsdale

So this is weirdly entertaining, after an abusive, would be sorta pseudo actor/performance artist meets occasionally hyperventilating and sometimes humorless media watchdog fashion. Wendell and Andy's exploration of the truth of this web emphemera was honest. And the breach was not remotely a "serious and embarrassing" failure, as you harrumphed.

And now, like a morning after headache, you're stuck with this humorless Ragsdale cyber-screaming at you. I feel bad for you, a little bit.

Brilliant Jeff.(and Megan) Your follow-up NYTPicker Posts worked well in causing a very amusing boxing match. How en genius on your part. And these people call themselves intellectuals? Hilarious, absolutely hilarious!!!

The NYTPicker is nothing more than a group of lying twisting failures. And not just failures at journalism, but life. You can smell their defeat in each and every sentence. It’s obvious they tried to get genuine journalistic jobs, but couldn’t, so now they operate a cheap bitter blog which attacks anything with integrity. The NYTPicker wrote me and asked if I wanted to do an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. I said as long as I was compensated for travel/expenses. Then they published my second email, which reminded them I had to be compensated. They published it as if it showed my character. There is no way in hell I’m going to pay for transportation (and waste my valuable time) to meet and be interviewed by a bunch of has-been, never-will-be lowlifes. Anyone can tear something down. But building something up is much much harder. The NYTPicker is the scum of the earth, and they once again show us that bottomfeeders are ubiquitous. I hope each and every person at NYTSHITHEADS dies the most horrible death imaginable. –Jeff Ragsdale

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